ENGLESKI JEZIK

VIŠA RAZINA

PROBNI ISPIT DRŽAVNE MATURE

šk. god. 2023./2024.

ISPIT ČITANJA
(Reading Paper)

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Način označavanja odgovora na listu za odgovore:

Način ispravljanja pogrešaka na listu za odgovore:

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Prepisan točan odgovor Paraf (skraćeni potpis)

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PROBNI ISPIT DRŽAVNE MATURE PAŽLJIVO NALIJEPITI!
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Pozorno pročitajte sve upute i slijedite ih.

Ne okrećite stranicu i ne rješavajte zadatke dok to ne odobri voditelj ispitne prostorije.
Ispit čitanja traje 70 minuta.

Ispit se sastoji od zadataka povezivanja, zadataka višestrukoga izbora i kombiniranih zadataka

dopunjavanja.
 zadatcima povezivanja svaki sadržaj označen brojem povežite samo s jednim odgovarajućim
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sadržajem koji je označen slovom (zadatak 1).
• U zadatcima višestrukoga izbora od više ponuđenih odgovora odaberite samo jedan (zadatak 2).
• U kombiniranim zadatcima odaberite samo jedan sadržaj koji najbolje nadopunjava tekst
(zadatci 3, 4 i 5).

Pri rješavanju ovih zadataka možete pisati po stranicama ove ispitne knjižice. Odgovore morate
označiti znakom X na listu za odgovore. Svaki točan odgovor donosi jedan bod.1

Na 2. stranici ove ispitne knjižice prikazan je način označavanja odgovora i način ispravljanja
pogrešaka. Pri ispravljanju pogrešaka potrebno je staviti paraf (isključivo skraćeni potpis,
a ne puno ime i prezime).
Upotrebljavajte isključivo kemijsku olovku kojom se piše plavom ili crnom bojom.

Kada riješite zadatke, provjerite odgovore.

Provjerite jeste li nalijepili identifikacijske naljepnice na sve ispitne materijale.

Želimo Vam mnogo uspjeha!

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Bodovi u svakoj od triju ispitnih cjelina imaju određeni udio u konačnome rezultatu.

Ova ispitna knjižica ima 18 stranica, od toga 1 praznu.

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Task 1
Questions 1-12

You are going to read an article in which people talk about how they spend their summer
holidays.
For each question (1-12), choose one person from A-F.
Mark your answer on the answer sheet.
There is an example at the beginning (0→A).

Summer holidays

A Alan

My wife and I went on our honeymoon to Paris. We loved it. In fact, we fell in love with the whole
country. Each year we consider going somewhere else; a classic seaside holiday, adventure travel,
exotic locations in faraway places. But we always end up going back. It’s great for me because I’m
interested in food and wine. And my wife loves the landscape and the culture. So it’s a win-win.
Maybe one year we will do something else, go camping or something. But for now, we’re happy.

B Belinda

I work hard so in the summer I need to recharge my batteries. And frankly, the best way is to do
as little as possible. We have a cottage in the country where we go for some of the time. Why go
through all the hassle of travelling abroad? All I need is sleep, food, and a walk or two. My kids think
I’m crazy. They want to visit cities, have some exciting adventures, go to amusement parks. I tell
them they can do all that themselves, when they’re old enough.

C Colin

I have a friend, Ted. He’s like a travel buddy. We always go on trips together in the summer. Neither
of us like the seaside, or holidays with too much physical activity, or travelling in groups. We
have considered the possibilities of rural tourism, but what we both really like is big metropolises.
I’m interested in 20th century painting and sculpture, and I can happily lose myself in a museum
for hours and hours. Ted is a bit different. He likes shopping and eating fine food in expensive
restaurants. And he’s not averse to a bit of clubbing, if he has the energy.

D Daisy

Every year it’s something different and exciting. One year we went white-water rafting in Tanzania.
Another year we went cycling in Peru, and visited all the Inca hotspots. We like to be outdoors and
active, with a little bit of danger thrown in. And we like faraway places, somewhere that forces you
out of your comfort zone. And sleeping under the stars is a must, none of that stifling luxury of posh
hotels for us. Last year we were going to go on safari, but I fell ill, so we had to cancel. This year
we’re going rock climbing. In Thailand!

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E Emmet

I am a schoolteacher. The school year is always intense and exhausting. You’re surrounded by
people all the time, constantly being called upon to do this or that. In the summer I like to get away
from it all. For me, summer is a time for reflection and solitude with no work to do. A time to rekindle
that inner peace, which will sustain me in the coming year. I choose places by the sea because
swimming against the tide is a great way to get the body back in shape. And I read. Many hours
each day. My summers are precious. I don’t know what I’d do without them.

F Fanny

Summer is crazy. And expensive! After school has finished, the whole world makes for the coast
or the airport. Traffic jams, queues for everything, crowded beaches. We prefer to find a secluded
retreat, somewhere in fine landscape and with lots of footpaths. We spend the whole day outside
in good weather. Either we take a picnic or stop and have something in a pub. My husband says
he’s saving to take us all to the Serengeti Safari Park. I’d consider making an exception to our usual
routine for the African savannah.

Which person...

0 always goes to France? → A

1 does not like foreign trips?

2 prefers rural tourism to the seaside?

3 likes visiting cities?

4 prefers camping to staying in hotels?

5 goes on walking holidays?

6 prefers to go on holiday alone?

7 has plans to see wildlife?

8 likes a lazy holiday?

9 is interested in art?

10 likes swimming in the sea?

11 likes gastronomy?

12 likes adventure travel?

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Task 2
Questions 13-18

Read the text below.

For each question (13-18), choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).
Mark your answer on the answer sheet.

The robotic moment

Sherry Turkle, a psychologist who has been studying the psychology of human interactions with
technology since the first electronic games appeared in the late 1970s, thinks today’s robots are
not only smarter but increasingly able to engage us emotionally. As a result, humans have begun
to think about their relationships with robots in new and often startling ways. These ‘sociable’
robots are able to mimic and evoke emotions by making eye contact, tracking our motion, and
remembering our names. Their faces, and especially their eyes, show emotion, and their voices
reflect rhythms and tones of our own, mimicking an interested listener.
When Turkle began studying sociable robots, they would come to the rescue to save lives
in war, perform delicate operations, or work in lethal environments. Today, people increasingly
expect robots to provide simple comforts, such as conversation and companionship. Of course,
no robots can do this now. Yet sociable robots and artificial intelligence software are changing our
expectations: instead of the normal give-and-take friendship, we find the idea of robotic companions
attractive because they offer constant attention without any demands.
There is a vast change in attitudes from the 1970s, when professor Turkle began investigating
how children thought about simple computerised toys, and various word games. These games may
have sharpened children’s minds, but they also challenged how children thought about what makes
something alive. In the past, Turkle says, children decided something was alive when it could move
on its own. With computer toys, physical motion did not matter. Instead children declared that these
toys were ‘sort of alive’ because they appeared to think on their own.
Fast-forward 20 years and engineers began making machines that appeared to have feelings.
One is a virtual pet, Tamagotchi, that requires owners to feed and discipline it. Such toys ask us to
care for them, and behave as if our actions matter. Since the 1990s, virtual pets have graduated
to proper robots with hair, motion, and even expression. Aibo, a robotic puppy, complains when it
receives too little attention or is too highly stimulated. Now, smart toys are not like us because they
reason, but because we connect with them emotionally and fantasise about how the object might
feel about us. Robots that ask for attention generate bonds of attachment. Children try to meet
the robot’s needs to understand its unique nature and wants. “There is a serious attempt to build
relationships as if there were mutuality”, Turkle said. From the romantic reaction, where simulated
feelings are never real feelings, we have moved to the robotic moment, where simulated feelings
will become acceptable.
Moreover, most of Turkle’s academic colleagues believe the need for caretaker robots for the
elderly is self-evident. Surprisingly, many people outside the tech professions view robots as safer

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than people. In fact, more than half of surveyed health care providers said they would prefer a robot
to a human in some tasks, such as housework and reminding patients to take medication. According
to Turkle, people say things like “I know who works in those nursing homes”.
Turkle agrees that robots could help people in many ways. But should they be our companions
or even help us accept death and loss? Although technology is seducing us with the illusion of
companionship that we can turn off at will, we have to prepare for the hidden costs that may arise.

13 What are sociable robots?

A Machines that are good listeners.

B Machines that can get emotional.
C Machines that are smarter than humans.
D Machines that can trigger human emotions.

14 According to the author, what do people expect from sociable robots nowadays?

A To provide emergency services.

B To work in dangerous situations.
C To keep them company and be soothing.
D To be sophisticated enough to understand humans.

15 What impact did sociable robots have on children?

A Robots made children play more.

B Robots changed how children defined the term ‘alive’.
C Playing with robots reduced children’s cognitive abilities.
D Children connected with robots because they were able to think like humans.

16 What does ‘the robotic moment’ mean?

A It means that a robot can develop an attachment to a human.

B It stands for give-and-take relationship, such as only humans share, with a robot.
C It describes a human being’s attempt to create a mutual relationship with a robot.
D It means that people have become satisfied with the romantic feelings they get from a robot.

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17 What is the general attitude towards caretaker robots?

A Many people view robots as more reliable than humans.

B Researchers believe people are not fit to take care of each other.
C Household providers prefer employing robots to humans in housework tasks.
D Many professionals believe robots are the future of complex medical procedures.

18 What message does Turkle give in the final paragraph?

A Robots should be our friends.

B Humans need robots to minimise grief.
C People turn to technology because no one listens to them.
D Friendship between humans and robots could cause problems.

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Task 3
Questions 19-24

Read the text on the next page.

For each question (19-24), choose the sentence (A-H) that best fits the gap.
There are two sentences that you do not need.
Mark your answer on the answer sheet.
There is an example at the beginning (0→I).

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Memory palace

Six years ago, science writer Brian Foster was just like the rest of us. (0) ___. This often caused
him problems and embarrassment. Twelve months later, he became the U.S. memory champion.
(19) ___. Foster recently wrote a book on his experiences.
Foster trained himself to become a memory athlete, someone who regularly tries to memorise
lists of hundreds of numbers and words. It might sound like an incredible feat, but such human
brains aren’t any different to a normal one. (20) ___. This creates stronger, novel connections in the
brain between words or figures and images.
Employing techniques that date back to the Greeks, memory champions like Foster create
‘memory palaces’ that rely on the human brain’s natural advantage with spatial and visual memory.
They think up images to represent everything they want to remember – the more outlandish or
shocking the better. If you’re trying to remember a microwave, for example, “maybe it’s frying a
chocolate bar or something”, Foster said. (21) ___. This could go back to the period when we were
hunter gatherers, and remembering, say, phone numbers was not that important when you were
hunting down a mastodon or whatever.
Foster found that cutting-edge neuroscience can prove the hypothesis that the people who are
best at memorising really do use their brains differently. One study of London cab drivers found that
memorising the complex street grid made parts of their brains larger than average. Another study
scanned memory champions with MRIs and discovered that the spatial part of their brain lights
up when they try to remember things. (22) ___. Researchers agree that they are simply using a
different strategy.
Memorising a deck of cards might seem like a quirky trick, but experts say that techniques like
the ‘memory palace’ can make a difference in everyday life. (23) ___. And what about where you left
your keys? Some experts recommended that when you set them down, take a mental snapshot of
the exact spot to help you when you’re looking for them later.
Everyone struggles to remember people’s names, but one trick you can use is to associate a
name with a vivid image. The name John Corn, for instance, becomes a toilet bowl sitting in a field
of corn... that’s on fire. (24) ___. But for the rest of us who just want to make life a little easier, all
that’s required is our imagination.

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A Once envisioned, these images are stored inside the rooms of the palace, an imaginary
building in the brain that can be anything from a childhood home to an art museum.

B However, this is one of the possible memory games that you can employ while trying to
memorise something.

C Foster took these image games to an extreme, training daily with special goggles and ear muffs
to block out distractions in his quest to become a memory champion.

D Moreover, they are gifted persons who possess special abilities.

E There is nothing biologically special about memory champions.

F They begin the encoding process through the senses and turn abstract things into vivid, lasting
memories.

G It was a rough journey, but he made it, after long hours of practice.

H When trying to remember things you need to buy at the store on the way home, envision your
house with the butter in the living room and the soap on the stairs.

I He was forgetting where he had left his car keys, what he needed to buy at the grocery
store and even his girlfriend’s birthday.

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Task 4
Questions 25-32

Read the text below.

For each question (25-32), choose the answer (A, B, C or D) that best completes the sentence.
Mark your answer on the answer sheet.
There is an example at the beginning (0→D).

Scrap quilt

Like any other craft, quilt making always results (0) ___ the rewarding feeling of happiness and
satisfaction – you have made something unique, using your imagination and skill.
Scrap quilts are quilts (25) ___ with a random assortment of fabrics – almost as if the quilter
shuts his or her eyes before choosing the next piece of fabric. The final outcome might not be
exactly as you (26) ___. That is the beauty of the whole process.
The history of traditional quilting asserts that the majority of scrap quilts were ‘make-do’ projects:
quilts constructed from leftover patches in order to be thrifty and use every scrap of fabric available.
Today, it isn’t unusual for quilters to have tons of scrap fabric lying around just so they have what
they need (27) ___ hand for a scrap quilt. So the next time a pattern (28) ___ their fancy, they will
not waste time finding the fabric.
Variety is the key to (29) ___ a collection of scrap quilt fabrics, so choose all sorts of fabrics, even
those you don’t necessarily like. Make sure you collect a mixture of print types: florals, geometrics,
calico fabrics, novelty prints, stripes, plaids – the more variety, the better. (30) ___, choose fabrics in
a wide range of colours. That means thinking beyond your favourites to include every colour of the
rainbow, including light and dark examples of each one.
The number of fabrics you use in your scrap quilts is totally up to you, from charm quilts,
(31) ___ no fabric is used more than once, to quilts with fewer fabrics.
Entire books (32) ___ about the art of scrap quilting, so regard the tips here as a starting point
to help you create a quilt filled with visual interest. Like any form of quilting, successful scrap quilts
take practice, but your quiltmaking skills will grow with every new project.

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A sown
B seen
C sewn
D shown

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A envisioned
B proposed
C believed
D considered

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A in
B off
C at
D by

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A makes
B suits
C tingles
D gets

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A compiling
B curating
C converting
D cutting

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30

A Although
B But
C Also
D Instead

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A that
B what
C which
D where

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A have been written

B will be written
C would be written
D had been written

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Task 5
Questions 33-40

Read the text on the next page.

For each question (33-40), choose the answer (A-M) that best completes the sentence.
There are five options that you do not need.
Mark your answer on the answer sheet.
There is an example at the beginning (0→N).

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The evolution of ice cream

Ice cream’s origins are known to reach (0) ____ as far as the second century BC. However, no
specific date of origin nor inventor has been indisputably credited (33) ____ its discovery. We know
that Alexander the Great enjoyed snow and ice flavoured with honey and nectar. Biblical references
show that King Solomon (34) ____ was fond of iced drinks during harvesting. During the Roman
Empire, Nero Claudius Caesar frequently sent runners into the mountains for snow, which was then
flavoured with fruits and juices.
Over a thousand years later, Marco Polo returned (35) ____ Italy from the Far East with a recipe
that closely resembled what is now called sherbet. Historians estimate that this recipe evolved into
ice cream sometime in the 16th century.
England seems to have (36) ____ ice cream at the same time, or perhaps even earlier than the
Italians. ‘Cream Ice’, (37) ____ it was called, appeared regularly during the 17th century at the table
of Charles I.
The first advertisement (38) ____ ice cream in America appeared in the New York Gazette
in 1777, when a confectioner wrote that ice cream was available ‘almost every day’.
Until 1800, ice cream remained a rare and exotic dessert enjoyed mostly by the elite. Around
1800, insulated ice houses were (39) ____. Manufacturing ice cream then became an industry in
America, pioneered in 1851 by a Baltimore milk dealer named Jacob Fussell. Like other American
industries, ice cream production increased because of technological innovations.
From the 1940s to the 1970s, ice cream production was relatively constant in the United States.
As more pre-packaged ice cream was sold (40) ____ the market, traditional ice cream stores and
beverage dispensers started to disappear. Now, speciality ice cream stores and unique restaurants
that feature ice cream dishes have increased in popularity.

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